Bass Guitar | Mixing | Processing Used | Andrew Scheps (ft. Green Day)

Puremix mentor Andrew Scheps will show you his bass guitar processing used on Green Day's single Bang Bang. His mixing techniques blend the bass into the song perfectly.

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[marcelmiagi]

Scheps is a boss! Thanks for the quality content here. I'm subscribing.

[kronk]

The more I watch these videos, the more I realize something Ive always known; the players, instruments, and tracking is what really sets the pro recordings apart. Their stuff always sounds 10 times better than average before they touch a single button.

[FortYort]

The distortion vs aggression concept might seem like common sense when you hear him say it, but it's honestly such a beautiful little epiphany as a beginner in mixing.

[TeleCustom]

I love how the meter is pinned in the red, but its not even something that he's concerned with because IT SOUNDS FUCKING GREAT.

[FR-hopn]

This is the best bass tone I've heard. Grit for days!!

[brayzbeats]

Andrew Scheps is really great. His didactiv way of teaching us mixing is awesome.

[AtaraxiaArg]

When the DI sounds better than my finished tracks, welp

[zachary]

I think guitar players have an advantage when it comes to this kind of stuff. Every guitarist knows the “not too much distortion or you use definition” trick there.

[MrAledez]

that hls hits the red as soon as it's engaged and i think that helps the tone a lot.

[norepetitivebeats]

I notice that the input signal when he gets to the Kramer HLS (5:29) is clipping. I always thought that you were supposed to avoid clipping and overloading plugins in the digital domain no? Or am I wrong on this?

[norabiddogz]

I would love a tutorial from Andrew on how the hell he mixed the snare from Dani California by Red Hot Chilli Peppers. I've been chasing that snare my whole life.

[mikewallace]

This is the best explanation of getting good sounding bass on a recording that I’ve heard! Saving this video.

[danielblack]

You should do a Mark Hoppus bass sound, his bass tone is insane.

[noodletribunal]

i actually just figured out that attack thing myself with my own guitar playing. i noticed some recordings had that attack, but i couldnt replicate it, well, i was trying to strum harder to get it, but in doing so, i was getting further and further away from what i wanted. now, i play in such a way that i allow the amp and distortion to do its thing, and instead try to play softer and with more control so that the initial attack doesnt get drowned out. that was my theory anyway, and i guess i was actually right!

edit: i think where exactly i choose to strum matters as well

[anthonysclafani]

What does the "Saul" in the guitar tracks mean?

[ronashe]

Doc Cohen: You have 6:03 minutes to live
me:

[rt-uhmt]

Great vid, the best part to me is 3:14 as much as I have wanted to add distortion to my bass I just never like it in the mix. As he says the sound of the pick on the strings (how I play - just like Dirnt) really adds aggression and even rhythmic element imo and I see now as he points out the distortion masks that pick attack and rhythm. Like Scheps I use the UAD fatso and also have the UAD Ampeg SVT plugin and both are unbelievably good. I record direct and always add the SVT plugin but I think now I'll try running a DI track in parallel with a duplicated track that has the SVT enabled. I also recently picked up a Bassman plugin too for use when I don't have my UAD plugged in ... only to realize as he mentions it's a much dirtier more distorted amp sound. Not a big fan of it but there might be an occasion to use it or maybe just a little in parallel as well?

[sunnydeyaliofficial]

The production is soo good that he didnt do substrative eq.But for us home studio guys, substractive eq is must

[amado]

The bass we hear in the final mix is the bass mixbuss or a blend between the bass mixbuss and the individual bass tracks?

[orangerecords_studio]

yes ok, Mr Scheps, but listineing to "Heavy Soul" by dotn relaly care about the song, but I just love this porduction and hav it as one of many in mixreference. How do you get this bass on the referain, is that some synh bass, in adittion there, goin on ? I can replicate the vers. which I recorded actually, just, slomt the same .Someone ?